PATIENCE IS VIRTUOUS

“Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.”

Stacey Charter

DELICIOUS TRADITIONAL CHINESE PASTRY

“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

BIG FRESH WATER MELONS

“Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers”

African Proverb

SOYA BEAN CURD FOR SALE

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

PLANTS IN MINI PLATES

“You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.”

Anonymous

SCENIC SEA VIEW

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

GREEN LEAFY PLANT

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

Martin Luther (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

BLACK AND WHITE LAPTOP COMPUTERS

“The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.”

Lord Thorneycroft

COMPUTER PARTS IN BOXES

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”

Wayne Dyer (American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling books. b.1940)

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.”

Jo Coudert

SILVER LAPTOP COMPUTER

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

Martin Luther (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

STROLL BY THE SEA

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”

Donald Miller

SUPER SAVINGS CONVENIENCE STORE

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

PLUSH CUSHION SOFA

“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.”

Stan Dale

WINDOW POSTER COVER-UPS

“Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.”

Ani Difranco (American Singer, Song Writer and Guitarist. b.1970)

SCRAP METAL CAR HEAP

“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”

Graham Greene (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)

GREEN FORESTRY VIEW

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

Susan Polis Schutz